MidAmerican Energy Co, IL
How often MidAmerican Energy Co goes out
1.9 separate outages last year, 5.1 hours without power in total - that is MidAmerican Energy Co's record for Illinois, running ahead of the national median. That is 111% more outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 2.7 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do MidAmerican Energy Co customers need a generator
Serving 86,395 customers here, MidAmerican Energy Co customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How MidAmerican Energy Co's record was measured
MidAmerican Energy Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 86,395 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Illinois as a whole, across every utility that filed: Illinois's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.